Portrait of Charles Edward Epp, a 2nd Lt. in the U. S. Marine Air Corps. Epp was born on September 20, 1923, in Kansas City, Missouri and enlisted in the Navy V-5 program in June 1942. He was called to...

Portrait of Charles O. Rogers, a Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class in the U. S. Coast Guard. Rogers was born on December 14, 1907, in Okmulgee, Oklahoma to Mr. and Mrs. William H. Rogers. The Rogers family moved...

Portrait of Charles V. Teaney who entered the service on March 26, 1943. Teaney was born on November 1, 1924, in St. Louis, Missouri. He was educated in Kansas City, Missouri and participated in numerous...

Portrait of Clifford D. Williams, Jr., a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. Williams was born on January 21, 1918, in Kansas City, Missouri and attended East High School. He enlisted on October 14, 1942, and in...

Portrait of Curtis S. Griffin, a Captain with the U. S. Army Air Corps. Griffin was born on April 11, 1920 in Kansas City, Missouri. Griffin entered the Army in 1940 and he was married on August 1, 1942...

Portrait of David Buckner Willock IV, a 1st Lt. in the U. S. Army Air Corps. Wilcock was born in Kansas City, Missouri on May 11, 1923, to David Buckner Willock and Myra A. Willock. He enlisted on January...

Portrait of Dawn Worth Darlington, member of the United States Marine Corp. He was born May 31, 1925 at Atlanta, Kansas, son of Hubert and Iris Darlington. On May 21, 1943 he enlisted in the Marine Corps...

Portrait of Edwin Nesbitt, a Seargent in the Army 506th Parachute Infantry. Nesbitt was born on April 6, 1917, in Riverton, Nebraska and enlisted in the Army on August 4, 1942. He was wounded in action...

Portrait of Captain Floyd Edwin Wilhelm who was born October 7, 1922 in Jonesboro, Illinois, son of William and Alice Wilhelm. He served in the Pacific Theater during World War II for more than four years...

A view of First Lieutenant Frazier R. Stair, 430th Fighter Squadron, 47th Fighter Group, Ninth Army Air Force, positioned in his airplane. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri on November 9, 1920 and graduated...

Portrait of Lt. Gilbert L. Worley, Jr., a flyer in the United States Army. He was born in Topeka, Kansas, April 12, 1920. He graduated from Southwest High School in Kansas City and from Kansas University...

Portrait of Giles J. Smith, Jr., a 1st Lt. in the U.S. Marines. Giles, also known as Jim, was born on March 9, 1921, in Kansas City, Missouri. Giles, a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity while at the...

Photograph of Harold R. Peaster, a Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps. Peaster was born on October 21, 1921, in Kansas City, Missouri. He was killed in action on February 1, 1945, with his entire crew, while...

Photograph of Harry H. McPherson, Jr., a Lieutenant in the U. S. Army. McPherson was born in Kidder, Missouri and lived in St. Joseph and Jefferson City before moving to Kansas City, Missouri. He attended...

Portrait of Harry Wayne Nelson, a Private in the U.S. Army. Nelson was born on April 22, 1911, in Jamestown, Kansas and his family moved to Kansas City, Missouri in 1914. He enlisted on November 28, 1942,...

Portrait of Henry Boshell, a Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps. Boshell, also known as Bud, was born July 31, 1921. He attended the Greenwood School and Central High School in Kansas City, graduating in...

Portrait of Henry Burton Coker, a Staff Sargeant in the U. S. Army. Coker was born on October 20, 1912, in Warren Arkansas. In 1928 his family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where he finished high school...

Portrait of Jack W. Burnham, a Staff Sergeant in the U. S. Airforce. Burnham was born on March 10, 1925, in Kansas City, Missouri and enlisted in 1943. He was assigned as a gunner on a B-26 and while returning...

Portrait of John Gray, Jr., a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. Gray was born in Creighton, Missouri on May 26, 1920, and attended Creighton High School. He enlisted on August 6, 1942, and was sent...

Portrait of John Owen Beauchamp, Jr., a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. Beauchamp was born in Kansas City, Missouri on April 25, 1923. He attended Southwest High School and enlisted in the Army Air...